Deaf Joke

[Guest guest]

My ASL Teacher told this to me the other night. This is how I understood it.

Her and her friend were looking through the Bargain finder for good deals on

plants to decorate their living room. They saw this add for some plants that a

lady needed to get rid of, so they phoned her up, and got the address. They

drove over there and saw really spectacular plants, 3 in particular stood out.

She looked at the 3 they wanted, and thought, " these are going to be expensive! "

So she asked the lady, " how much? "

The lady says she is selling all of them for $10. She and her friend are amazed

by this, and can't believe the deal they're getting for such beatiful plants.

They load them up in the truck and head for home.

In the first month they take very good care of their plants, water them weekly,

fertilize, make sure the get enough sunlight, and sure enough, the plants

respond. Each becoming more beautiful than before.

A while later, despite their careful care-taking, the plants begin to wilt.

Each one after the other. Finally, they are all looking very sick. My teacher,

and her friend are both very puzzled by this, since they haven't changed

anything in their routine. Water weekly, enough sunlight, fertilize.

So they call up a local horticulturalist (plant doctor), and he says to bring

the plants in, and he'll take a look. He looks the plants over, and shakes his

head.

" How often do you water? "

" Weekly "

" How about sunlight? "

" Just the right amount "

" Fertilize? "

" Once in a while "

He scratches his head, and takes one of th plants back to his lab for closer

examination, and rumination. My teacher and her friend wait nervously in the

waiting room, expecting the worst.

The Doctor comes out and says, " the problem is that you are deaf "

(ie, they don't talk to their plants .. at first I thought she signed that the

plants were deaf, which I think would have been funnier)

It was funny as hell in ASL.